The nuclear power establishment was built on the site of a World War IIairfield, called RAF Station Dounreay. It became HMS Tern (II) when the airfield was transferred to the Admiralty by RAF Coastal Command in 1944, as a satellite of HMSTern at Twatt in Orkney. It never saw any action during the war and was placed into care and maintenance in 1949.

1000 Miles Apart

I wonder when this poison seed made a root and grew aweedI wonder when I taught my feet not to walk down certainstreetsI want to feel what I believe: that we are all the sameIt’s not our houses, it’s our hearts 1000 miles apartYou stay there, and I'll stay here, into our corners wedisappearAnd we don’t ever have to talk, 'cause you like hiphopand I like rockBut sometimes thoughts hurt just as bad as strikingcheeks with handsIt’s less our homes and more our hearts 1000 miles apartWhen will we have eyes to see?When will we learn?Will we ever have eyes to seeThat from our colours we learn?A change of heart, a change of tune, can we forgive eachother’s wounds?Can we cut down this fence of weeds, and neighbors, closeas brothers, be?Cannot love conquer even when we don’t look the same?

The nuclear power establishment was built on the site of a World War IIairfield, called RAF Station Dounreay. It became HMS Tern (II) when the airfield was transferred to the Admiralty by RAF Coastal Command in 1944, as a satellite of HMSTern at Twatt in Orkney. It never saw any action during the war and was placed into care and maintenance in 1949.

DounreaySiteRestoration Ltd, the site licence company responsible for the clean-up and closure of the former nuclear research facility, awarded the multi-million pound contract to Cavendish Nuclear for the final phase of decommissioning the DounreayMaterials Test Reactor (DMTR) following a competitive tendering exercise....

Cavendish DounreayPartnership said there were potential job opportunities locally in the renewable energy sector, and also a planned new spaceport in Sutherland. Phil Craig, managing director at Cavendish Dounreay Partnership, said ... "This is a positive announcement, not only for those working at Dounreay today, but for our community looking forward....

Wood has won a framework contract to provide design and engineering services to the Dounreay nuclear site in Scotland, UK... The framework will help deliver the overarching decommissioning programme overseen by site licence company DounreaySiteRestoration Ltd (DSRL)....

Highland Council planning officers have described phase three as "by far the most significant stage" in the decommissioning of Dounreay... This is expected to be reached between 2030 and 2033 ... A wild flower meadow created at Dounreay provides habitat for the great yellow - among Britain's rarest bumblebees ... ....

Located in the far north of Scotland, Dounreay employs around 1,200 staff and a similar number of people through the supply chain. From the mid-1950s, Dounreay was the UK's centre of research into fast reactors until 1994... The NDA spends more than £177 million a year to decommission Dounreay....